Sonic X Shadow Generationsadds an entirely new campaign where you play as Shadow.

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Chaos Control

This will be familiar to any Sonic fan.

Shadow in the air with Doom wings in Sonic X Shadow Generations.

you’re free to use this to freeze time.

This means that stage hazards and enemies freeze, letting you get by particularly dangerous areas.

However, it can sometimes be used to take shortcuts.

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These shortcuts will be clearly indicated on the screen by green sparkles if you pass one.

The game makes this very clear, prompting you to activate it when its necessary.

Now, we can use them ourselves.

Using Chaos Control to stop time in Sonic X Shadow Generations. The screen is grayed out, aside for some green effects on the top and bottom of the screen

This projectile attacklocks onto targets automatically.

To use it, hold the relevant button to activate them, and wait for it to target enemies.

Itcan target up to five enemiesat a time.

Shadow running through a stage in Sonic X Shadow Generations. He’s locked onto enemies, about to attack them with projectiles

There are a few times when theDoom Spears can also be used to activate switches.

Doom Blast

Doom Blast ismuch more situational than the other abilitiesweve gone over.

When youre prompted to use Doom Blast, youre able to launch an enemy into the air.

Shadow launches an enemy into the sky, and is choosing which direction to kick them in in Shadow Generations.

From here, you have some time tochoose which direction you want to launch the enemy in.

Youll also use Doom Blast in a boss fight.

Here, youll be prompted to launch the boss into hazards, so they take damage.

Shadow surfing on a body of water via the Doom Surf ability in Shadow Generations.

But for the most part, youreusing it for specific platforming segments.

Doom Surf

Another very situational ability, but one that grants you more freedom.

Doom Surf kicks in automaticallyas soon as you walk or jump into a body of water.

Shadow surfing across “corrupted” water which is purple

So, dont worry about activating it beforehand - unlike Sonic, Shadow doesnt risk drowning.

In the hub area, this means beingable to swim in the corruptionthat otherwise slows you down.

you’re free to only activate Doom Morph by homing into special morph balls.

Shadow using the Doom Wings to fly across the map in Shadow Generations.

Once you do this, you’re able to safely swim across the corruption.

you could alsograpple on morph balls while already in Doom Morphto reach areas you couldnt otherwise.

Doom Wing

As the final ability, youre only unlocking this towards the end of the game.

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However, once you do, it unlocks a completely new way to get through a stage as Shadow.

This comes into play in the final level.

Youllneed at least 50 ringsbefore you could activate the ability.

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It willcontinually drain your Rings while in use, so keep a close eye on them.

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Sonic X Shadow Generations